oh no! sorry about your turkey, it really is a loss when our birds die, no matter the cause.
homesteading would be a lot funner and care free if predators didn’t exist that’s for sure 😂
i’ve only ever seen one owl here in my life, never had a problem with them and haven’t heard people having problems… our weather is very weird and it’s uncommon for most basic predators to live here (mink don’t even originate here, there’s a mink farm that got shut down a couple miles away and...
hawks are one of the rarest species on my island! the weather is not made for them here :) we unfortunately still have things like mink and once in a while coyotes so there definitely is predators around, but hawks are not one of them :)
i had a mink attack a week ago. i didn’t kill anything thankfully but i knew it would be back so i’ve done everything i possibly can to protect them. today, my baby/teenage ducks were playing. i came out side to put them to bed and one was missing ? all of the others were content, not injured...